Yes 80 Days is non-violent; it is one of the things I like about it!

Originally posted by RasaRasa:

Yes 80 Days is non-violent; it is one of the things I like about it!

Thank you for replying. What about other themes that might affect how family friendly it is? I take into consideration a lot of different factors when considering a game to review for my list.

While it is non-violent in the sense that there is no combat or visual depictions of violence, there are descriptions of warfare, attacks and slavery. Whether this counts as family friendly, I don't know. None of the description is particularly detailed or gruesome. It might not be suitable for young children, but I would think it's OK with ~10 and up.

Originally posted by david:

While it is non-violent in the sense that there is no combat or visual depictions of violence, there are descriptions of warfare, attacks and slavery. Whether this counts as family friendly, I don't know. None of the description is particularly detailed or gruesome. It might not be suitable for young children, but I would think it's OK with ~10 and up.

I was wondering if that might be the case for this game. Might still be alright, but would need to mention that to my followers.

Originally posted by House Blythe:

Originally posted by RasaRasa:

Yes 80 Days is non-violent; it is one of the things I like about it!

Thank you for replying. What about other themes that might affect how family friendly it is? I take into consideration a lot of different factors when considering a game to review for my list.

Also, keep in mind that while the game is never explicit about it, there are certain romantic/adult themes that depending on exactly how strict your definition of 'family friendly' is, which might be considered an issue for some people.

Originally posted by chankljp:

Also, keep in mind that while the game is never explicit about it, there are certain romantic/adult themes that depending on exactly how strict your definition of 'family friendly' is, which might be considered an issue for some people.

That would also be important for me to know if I'm to consider writing a review...Thank you for pointing that out.

There are references to torture, including the breaking of teeth and pulling of finger nails. There is also at least one reference to execution by hanging. I also just punched Jesse James in the face.

Originally posted by Acid Penguin:

There are references to torture, including the breaking of teeth and pulling of finger nails. There is also at least one reference to execution by hanging. I also just punched Jesse James in the face.

Thank you for telling me this. That does kinda rule out this game from my list.

Should be said for the most part all accounts are quite reserved, and overriding tone is one of wonder and amazement. Any particular scenario is quite unlikely to be encountered. In its favour, it also has reasonably strong depictions of female characters. All that said, to add to what others have said, my recent game involved a whodunnit-style murder mystery. No real graphic description or depiction, but the crime scene and circumstances of the murder were important.

No pictures of violence. Violence is only low-intensity and in text. I rate TV news about a car accident or an USA school-shooting a higher violence threshold.
But this game is mainly for people who have started to read between the lines and understand what is really happening. It does a great job for them.
So family friendly, from my perspective I think not: This game will be too boring for most children and teens because it is mostly a text-adventure and has no "action"-sequences/ gameplay. The reward mechanism will not trigger fun for low attention span persons because people who favour Peppa Pig will not understand the text and those who begin to understand the texts are mostly accustomed/trained to other types of entertainment with more direct action from films like KungFu Panda or Plattformer action like Super Mario.
You can argue that the aspect of organizing money, time and the travel route is also fun for teens but that is not where this game has its golden core. It is the text, the story/stories.
Because you have two main characters as travelling compaignions, a french "commoner" and an english "gentleman". Many times you have more than one perspective on a given situation. The main chars are described as persons who despise violence and killing but may be forced to act by circumstance. One man has memories of war-time. Those memories did not consume him in his further live. When it comes to violence the game does a great job because violence is a part of life and there is no glorification of it, well so far in my encounters of 5 runs. Moreover it shows that violence harms people and offers multiple perspectives on circumstances.

Well, my 6 year old is totally asking me to play it with her as observer. It depends on what you mean my 'family friendly'. There's absolutely a love story option where Passepartout goes to bed with someone (but described in not very graphic terms, comparable to a PG movie), and I was totally cheering when P found the happy ending with Vitti option. They allude to violence in the past, with occasional options of non-graphic fisticuffs. More importantly, it engages with world history in a very thoughtful way. There are indigenous groups who are fighting for survival in an era of European colonialism, there's the aftermath of slavery and how people feel about it, there are a lot of complicated female characters. So very friendly to thoughtful, wanting to acquire more points of view families; less friendly to families who are not yet up to having The Talk about slavery and ethnic cleansing are things that happened that were bad,

I would rate it Teen on ArchiveOfOurOwn, for instance.

Thank you everyone for the valuable feedback about this game!

I doubt this comment will be read or replied to but why on earth would you try to review a game, especially with the purpose of recommending it as family friendly without playing it first yourself??? Every parent will have different sets of values and a different experience of playing the game. Just play it and you'll be able to answer all your own questions yourself based on your own set of values. Rant over, lol

Originally posted by hobbitshire:

I doubt this comment will be read or replied to but why on earth would you try to review a game, especially with the purpose of recommending it as family friendly without playing it first yourself??? Every parent will have different sets of values and a different experience of playing the game. Just play it and you'll be able to answer all your own questions yourself based on your own set of values. Rant over, lol

I've had a lot of success with this method when it comes to getting a heads up about features of games before spending money on them, besides having a lot of games to process.

You can get shot lol